Motto: "Pauca sed matura" (Few, but ripe.)
"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."
"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics."
"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."
"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."
"God does arithmetic."
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others."
"Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard."
"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
